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...University's Committee on Civil Defense has recommended against the construction of any separate fallout shelters, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. The Committee also concluded that "the limited possibility of saving people does not warrant investment in blast shelters...
...Copies. Senefelder started out to be a playwright; his first play was called Der Madchenkenner (The Man Who Knew Girls), and he played the lead with lusty success. Other plays followed, and they presented the author with a problem. Each script needed at least 20 copies-too few to warrant the expense of a printer, too many to copy by hand...
Consummate Actress. Their own dear Queen, with forbidding beneficence, hovered over it all, notably regal, notably bourgeois, and - as Author Petrie remarks - a consummate actress. The power of royalty was in one sense so limited that, as Bagehot declared in the 1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick (Dial "M" for Murder) Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...